Abstract: Investments in the provision of physical and social infrastructure have traditionally been used by governments in developing regions in attempts to offset the impacts of development and to maintain the regional community’s Quality of Life (QoL) expectations. This paper explores this approach in terms of a holistic response that can embrace all of the acknowledged components that constitute the community’s QoL expectations in a growing region. It introduces the notion of environmental infrastructure and explores its role in sustaining the region’s landscape, its natural resource systems as well as its open space framework, which can make a crucial contribution to the QoL experienced by a region’s population. However, the question arises as to how the necessary elements of environmental infrastructure can be identified and addressed through traditional forms of regional and infrastructure planning processes, especially those associated with growth management paradigm. The paper explores the emergent landscape planning paradigm and contrasts it against more traditional forms of planning. It outlines the potential role of landscape planning in facilitating the identification of the required environmental infrastructure necessary to maintain the quality of a region’s open space that contributes to its sustainability and liveability. The paper argues a case for a balanced and holistic approach to infrastructure planning that acknowledges the need for environmental infrastructure alongside the conventional forms of physical and social infrastructure.